US 12,081,457 B2
Apparatus and method for selecting and providing network equipment security designations
Keiron Christopher Tomasso, Turnersville, NJ (US)
Assigned to SIGMA DEFENSE SYSTEMS LLC, Perry, GA (US)
Filed by SIGMA DEFENSE SYSTEMS LLC, Perry, GA (US)
Filed on Oct. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/515,389.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/107,232, filed on Oct. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0141157 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. H05B 45/20 (2020.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 45/60 (2022.01); H04L 49/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 49/40 (2013.01) [H04L 45/60 (2013.01); H04L 63/205 (2013.01); H05B 45/20 (2020.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network component security system comprising:
a first lighting element disposed within a first housing of a first network component, the first network component suitable for processing information having a first security classification and not suitable for processing information having a second security classification, the first lighting element capable of emitting light having a selectable one of at least a first and a second color;
at least a second lighting element disposed within a second housing of a second network component, the second network component suitable for processing information having the second security classification and not suitable for processing information having the first security classification, the second lighting element capable of emitting light having a selectable one of at least the first and the second color; and
a first user-operable switch coupled to the first lighting element and a second user-operable switch coupled to the second lighting element such that a user can operate the first switch to cause the first lighting element to illuminate the first housing with light of the first color to indicate the first security classification, and the user can operate the second switch to cause the light-emitting element to illuminate the second with the second color to indicate the second classification;
whereby thereafter the user, given information having either the first or second security classification, can visibly determine by observation of the first and second housings, a suitable one of the first and second network components for processing the given information.